A video game fight, but the violence is real

A fight over a Playstation video game may have led to the shooting that left two teenagers in Kent critically wounded Thursday afternoon.

Kent police say it began at an apartment complex near South 256h Street and 27th Place South around 12:40 p.m. when three men burst into a unit there and assaulted the tenant.

That resident drove himself to the hospital, but asked two friends, ages 18 and 17, to watch his place while he was gone.

Sometime around 4:45 p.m., three men again busted into the unit and asked for the tenant, who was still gone. When they found out he was out, the three intruders said they were robbing the place.

One of the intruders then pulled a semi-automatic handgun and shot each of the teenagers once, striking the older boy in the stomach and the younger teen in the neck.

Both teens are currently at Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.

Witnesses told investigators that they believed the video game dispute led to the violence, but police suspect there are other motivations behind the assault and shootings.

The three intruders were described as older teenagers, about 18, and included a thin white male, one stocky Asian or mixed-race male with a fade haircut, and a thin black teen with corn rows extending to his neck.